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Human Rights and Social Policy: Challenges and Opportunities for Social Research and Its Use as Evidence in the Protection and Promotion of Human Rights in Scotland

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  29 August 2012

Alison Hosie  and
Michele Lamb
Alison Hosie
Affiliation:
Scottish Human Rights Commission E-mail: alison.hosie@scottishhumanrights.com
Michele Lamb
Affiliation:
Department of Social Science, University of Roehampton E-mail: Michele.Lamb@roehampton.ac.uk
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Abstract

This article is the result of a joint project conducted by University of Roehampton and the Scottish Human Rights Commission, undertaken between March 2010 and April 2011. The article describes the methodological challenges encountered in the data collection phase of the project and addresses the conceptual relationship between social science and human rights research. It argues that social policy and social sciences research has an important contribution to make in the promotion and protection of human rights and demonstrates the use of the Research in Scotland's National Action Plan for Human Rights, being prepared by the Commission during 2012–13.

Keywords

Human RightsSocial PolicyScotlandNational Action Plan
Type
Articles
Information
Social Policy and Society , Volume 12 , Issue 2 , April 2013 , pp. 191 - 203
Copyright
Copyright © Cambridge University Press 2012

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